Mary Doane is Supervising Instructor of Education Programs at Zen Caregiving Project in San Francisco, where she develops course content and trains and mentors instructors. She served for ten years as a volunteer hospice caregiver. Mary has completed Buddhist Chaplaincy training at the Sati Center for Buddhist Studies and Being With Dying training for clinicians at Upaya Institute and Zen Center. Earlier, she studied socially engaged Buddhist practice with the Buddhist Peace Fellowship.
Mary trained at Stanford University to teach CCT and has dual Instructor certification from the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) at Stanford and from Compassion Institute (CI). She teaches throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.